You Have To Act And Act Now.

Both My Mother And I Were Determined That We Weren't Going To Stay On Welfare. We Always Worked Toward Doing Better, Toward Having A Better Life. We Never Had Any Doubts That We Would.

Those That Believe This Is Merely A Downturn Are Mad. Our Industry Is Going To Mature And As Something Matures, The Rate Of Innovation Does Slow.

When I Started Oracle, What I Wanted To Do Was To Create An Environment Where I Would Enjoy Working. That Was My Primary Goal. Sure, I Wanted To Make A Living. I Certainly Never Expected To Become Rich, Certainly Not This Rich. I Mean, Rich Does Not Even Describe This. This Is Surreal. And It Has Nothing To Do With Money. I Mean, You Buy Clothes With Money, And Cars. But I Really Wanted To Work With People I Enjoyed Working With, Who I Admired And Liked.

Because Software Is All About Scale. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are. If We Sell Twice As Much As Software, It Doesn't Cost Us Twice As Much To Build That Software. So The More Customers You Have, The More Scale You Have. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are.

It's My Job For Oracle, The Number Two Software Company In The World; To Become The Number One Software Company In The World. My Job Is To Build Better Than The Competition, Sell Those Products In The Marketplace And Eventually Supplant Microsoft And Move From Being Number Two To Number One.